Melbourne

So I was the pied piper on the weekend and took a troop of kids to see the Minecraft Movie. It was an experience.
The movie itself was pretty typical middle-aged kids' fare. Fairly awful dialogue and cliched characters. Jason Moama was a surprise, I thought Jack Black was the only famous star in it. I have a feeling that in the right role, Jason would have some wonderful comedy chops. This movie was not it. Stiffler's Mum was funny, but all I could see was Stiffler's Mum. I think the two female leads were great and a good foil for the Jack Black/Jason Moama antics. Pity the girls didn't really have a lot to do in the plot.

If I'd been watching it on Blu Ray or streaming, I might have turned it off. As a movie, it's not great. However, watching it in a cinema on opening weekend in a room full of kids really made it wonderful. They were cheering at obvious fan-service references that I didn't get. Screaming out at "Chucky Chicken!" and I can't remember other bits. But you get the idea. The energy in the room was great.

So while I didn't particularly love the movie, I loved the experience of watching it.

I know it probably sounds stupid, but I'm a bit devo.

One of the strays, the little calico hasn't come to eat for the last 2 days and didn't see her today either.

I've gotten a bit attached to these guys and I think I need to take a little step back emotionally.

:(

Had to take today off due to migraine.

Annoyed but glad for the rest. In the past I would have either gone in, or freaked out all day because of moderate workaholism.

Not this time.

Laptop is off and will stay off till tomorrow. Not stressed about what they'll think.

It is what it is.

Gotta say this new backpack is amazing! I didn't realize the last one was so uncomfortable till I started using this one. its weird walking around the city without feeling like somethings is poking you in the back and pushing down on your shoulders.

Hello??? Is anybody out there????

Is it just me or are people super inconsiderate at the moment? Had people blowing smoke (vape or otherwise) whilst walking in front of me, people stopping to chat in tiny sections of supermarkets, people pushing to the front of the line, talking loudly on the phone (or even worse on speaker!), microwaving eggs in the office, singing in the office and acting like a session on the loo is year 9 drama club audition. Violence doesn't solve anything but maybe we should make a gentle slap over the back of the head socially acceptable for when people are being a rude fuck.

beach

on Saturday the blue wrens told me off, on Sunday a willy wagtail, Monday a flock of corellas, today I saw some yellow robins

and here is a pic of big swan footprints in the sand

Ha ha ha

Tech guy came to fix the stovetop, but he took one look at it and was like nope 😂 because the bench is stone (not wood), it has to be replaced with a same-size one. So he's gonna give a quote to the RE for that lol

Rangehood is still jacked as well.

At least it was a quick appointment 😂

Gibson will throw a hissy fit and run off if I pick up my phone during brushies.

Jeeeeeeeez Louise.

Back in melbs. Silly bus replacement. Wasn't as bad as expected but yea, 4 and a bit hours :(

I guess one good thing is there are far fewer people.

One thing that perplexes me is to get from geelong to wyndham vale station and vice versa by road, you have to meander through a shitload of back streets. Poorly thought out.

This time was paying very close attention to the synthetic lawns. EVERYWHERE! I'm really not sure why people do that (sorry to anyone here who has one). Just put some rocks down, few bigger feature rocks, maybe some cacti. Wouldn't be any more work, cheap as but would look a shitload nicer.

Hard to believe it'll be 30 this weekend...

Goodnight all! I have laundered and tidied, worked, shopped, cooked dinner, tidied up afterwards and am officially retreating to my room for the alone time my introverted soul needs. Will most likely pretend I'm going to buy a house and check out property listings before falling asleep. 🥱😴

One more work day then a 2 week break.

Have the choice of going in super early but basically the sooner I finish the work I’ve been assigned and tidy up the office area then I’m done for the day and it’s not going to take me too long I reckon.

Also I managed to get a new ID tag and my old one deactivated with a super quick turnaround thanks to a friend now managing it all at work and they had a shift to cover over at my site so basically all it took was 4 hours for me to get a new ID Tag, this time with my photo and name on it and no cost to pay, yay!

Sky greyscale.

Does anyone know how to change the setting back to full colour?

There's a cafe I have been coming to every tuesday morning for months. I dont think I've ever seen the same staff more than a few weeks running.

I was lucky, someone came today and the vet was able to squeeze Melbcat in during that time. Waiting on another culture and she’s getting some extra tlc.

Edit: The vet also suggested brushing her teeth. Uhh, wish me luck

Laksa. Thick or thin noodle?

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Have developed a crave for food the house contains no ingredients for. Guess I shall put on pants today after all.

Gathering ingredients for primordial soup

Absolute shoutout to cat 1 for starting a punch on with cat 2 and waking up the toddler at 5am. Cats just subscribed to “alarm clock” for the next week where if I find him asleep I shout “it’s 5 am and I wanna plaaaaaaaaay” whilst gently shaking him awake. He freaking hates it. But he learns his lesson: being woken up sucks!

Finally caved and put the doona on the bed. I've been holding out, alas.

The sun is shiiiiiiiining, so went downstairs and just stood in it for 5 minutes, felt absolutely lovely.

I love how the news re the sharemarket has gone from ‘bloodbath’ yesterday to ‘don’t panic’ today

I got the new work laptop. This one is brand new and it's interesting how Dell has gone back to having normal ports again. The old laptop only has 3 USB-C ports, an SD card slot (full size) and a headphone jack. The new laptop has USB-A ports and a HDMI port, and a micro SD card slot.